We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.

We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.

I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.

There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing. I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.

The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.

Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

Every moment is a moment of happiness.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.